AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ACT 1986 - SECT 4 Operation of State and Territory laws

AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ACT 1986 - SECT 4

  (1)   This Act is not intended to exclude or limit the operation of a law of a State or Territory that is capable of operating concurrently with this Act.

  (2)   If:

  (a)   a law of a State or Territory deals with a matter dealt with by this Act; and

  (b)   an act or omission by a person that constitutes an offence against that law also constitutes an offence against this Act;

the person may be prosecuted and convicted either under that law of the State or Territory or under this Act, but nothing in this subsection renders a person liable to be punished more than once in respect of the same act or omission.